Medicaid Is Changing — What Caregiving Families Need to Know Now

Significant changes to Medicaid took effect in starting 2025 to 2028 that directly affect families planning for or currently using Medicaid to fund a parent's long-term care. This video covers what changed, what it means for your family, and — most importantly — what to do now. Medicaid rules vary by state and some provisions are being litigated. Please consult a qualified elder law attorney in your state for guidance specific to your situation. We cover: • The elimination of federal nursing home minimum staffing standards — what it means for care quality and what families should do • Shorter retroactive Medicaid coverage windows and why applying earlier matters more now • The Five Year Look Back period which is not changing under the new legislation • More frequent eligibility redeterminations — and the important exception for nursing home residents • Home and community-based services — why the funding direction is positive but the staffing gap remains a challenge • The 2028 home equity cap and why it has immediate planning implications • The nursing home landscape in 2026 — what to expect with tighter facility margins • Specific actions to take now — including the one call that matters most ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🆓 Resources: Find an elder law attorney — naela.org Medicare Care Compare (nursing home staffing and inspections) — medicare.gov/care-compare Eldercare Locator (Area Agency on Aging) — eldercare.acl.gov ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🔔 Subscribe — new videos twice a week for sandwich generation families 💬 Comment — what question does this raise for your family's situation? ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ #medicaidchanges2025 #medicaidlongtermcare #sandwichgeneration #nursinghomestaffing #medicaidplanning2026 #medicaidelderlyCare #longtermcaremedicaid #sandwichgenerationlife #medicaidpolicyupdate #caregivingmedicaid #medicaidplanning2028